Sims Selects Van Dyk Recycling to Equip New Brooklyn MRF

Sims Metal Management (SMM),  based in New York, has selected Van Dyk Recycling Solutions, Stamford, Conn.,  a distributor of Bollegraaf, Lubo and Titech recycling equipment, to supply the processing equipment for its MRF (material recovery facility) in Brooklyn, N.Y.

According to Van Dyk, the plant is designed to process more than 1,000 tons per day of curbside recyclables and will sort all of the plastics, metal and aluminum collected in all five New York City boroughs.

“We are all excited to break ground on what will be the most advanced municipal recycling center in the country,” says Robert Kelman, president of SMM’s commercial and business development division, at the center’s ground breaking ceremony.

Materials in the city’s collection program arrive in bags, and electronic and larger household materials also are collected in the same stream. To handle the material, Van Dyk expanded upon its earlier pilot plant design and added technology to remove bags as well as sort out the metal and electronics for further recycling.  

“The existing Jersey City Pilot Plant utilizes three Titech optical sorters to sort plastics, but because of the volume of the material in the new facility we have incorporated 16 Titech optical sorters to separate plastics, metals and containers,” says Pete Bond, sales engineer for Van Dyk Recycling Solutions. The Titech optical sorters will sort and verify 10 different marketable products for the city, and the MRF’s employees will handle quality control versus primary sorting. The processed containers will be baled by two new Bollegraaf 120S balers.  

Sims’ New York City facility was designed by Selldorf Architects. It incorporates sustainable elements, including green roofs, renewable energy production and on-site storm water treatment. It will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.